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Synopsis: Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-somet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lisa Cholodenko
Production: Focus Features
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 120 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2010
106 min
$20,803,237
Website
621 Views


just so long ago.

I totally forgot about it.

I never thought

they'd ever use my stuff.

Why not?

Well, I'd use it.

Oh, baby.

It's weird.

There's a kid out there.

I mean, I'm kind of

curious, I think.

Yeah?

Yeah.

So what are you gonna do?

I don't know.

What would you do?

I don't know.

You got to figure it out.

Yeah, no doubt.

All right, I got to go now.

All right.

Thanks for coming.

It was really nice.

I'll see you tomorrow.

So, drive safe.

M-E-R. "Zoomer."

No way.

That is so not a word.

No, it totally is.

That's not a word.

If you're gonna

zoom somewhere,

then you're a zoomer.

A person who zooms.

So that would be...

Let's see, that's 31...

Hello?

Hi.

I'm looking for

Joni Allgood.

Yeah, this is she.

Hey.

This is Paul,

your donor.

Eleven points

for Mommy.

Oh! H i.

Hey. Don't be a zoomer.

Hey.

Come back.

Is this a good time to talk?

Yeah. No,

this is great.

So, how are you?

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

I'm well, thanks.

Wendy at the Cryobank

was talking about maybe...

Oh, yeah. Well.

Actually, my brother

asked if I'd call you,

because I'm 18,

and he's only 15,

which is,

you know, which is

too young to call.

Anyway, he'd like

to meet you.

You know,

if you want to.

Your brother?

Yeah. Well, technically

he's my half-brother.

Each of my moms had a kid,

you know, with...

With your...

With your sperm.

Like in both of them?

Yeah.

Like in two?

U h-huh. Like in gay.

Oh! Right. Right.

Right on.

Right on.

Yeah, cool. I...

I love lesbians.

Great.

So you wanna,

I don't know, get a bite

to eat or something?

You and your brother?

I just don't want you

to have big expectations.

Will you quit saying that?

I have no expectations,

all right?

Okay. I'm just saying.

He might be weird.

I mean, he donated sperm.

That's weird.

Well, you know,

if he hadn't, we wouldn't

be here, so respect.

Hello?

Hey. Hey.

You're Joni, right?

H i, I'm Joni.

I'm Paul. N ice to meet you.

N ice to meet you.

You must be Laser?

Laser, yeah.

Right on.

That's a very cool name.

Thanks.

Well...

Cool.

Yeah. Yeah.

Listen, you know, feel free

to ask me anything,

anything you want.

Cool, thanks. Yeah.

Cool.

Laser, do you have

any questions that

you wanna ask?

Go ahead, shoot.

Anything.

I didn't really have any,

you know, specific questions

or anything, so...

Nothing?

Not really.

Well, I mean,

I'd love to know more

about you guys.

Everything. I mean...

So what do you do, Joni?

What are you into?

I just graduated high school,

and I'm starting college

in the fall, so...

Hey, that's great.

Congratulations.

Thanks.

Yeah,

Joni's the brains

in the family.

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Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director of film and television. She wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002) and The Kids Are All Right (2010). For the latter film she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2010. She has also directed numerous works for television, including the 2014 miniseries Olive Kitteridge for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film. more…

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